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Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »
The UK Government must carry out long overdue reform of the teaching of Religious Education (RE) in England to meet the needs of modern society, says Humanists UK in response to another Ofsted review. In its deep-dive report into RE – Deep and meaningful? – Ofsted found that the current curriculum often lacks ‘sufficient substance to… Read more »
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Foreign secretary Jack Straw is today expected to put forward its proposals for European Union budget reform ahead of a crunch meeting of member states in a fortnight’s time. Tony Blair met with eastern European leaders last week to try to secure their support for a deal on the 2007-13 EU budget, where he indicated… Read more »
Gordon Brown has today been forced to downgrade his economic growth predictions as he made his pre-Budget statement to the House of Commons. The chancellor admitted that Britain’s economy was not increasing at the rate he predicted in March’s Budget – between three and 3.5 per cent – but in fact was growing at 1.75… Read more »